Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id LAA25758 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:52:33 +0100 Message-ID: <570E2BEE7BC5A34684EE5914FCFC368C10FC53@fillan.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Bush's War on Terrorism Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:45:37 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Filter-Info: UoS MailScan 0.1 [D 1] X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>>>> Can't say I know of a muslim country that would be nice to live
>> in.>>
>>
>> I nearly missed this rather nasty little sentence. Beware
sweeping
>> generalisations, whoever wrote this.
<It is not a sweeping generalisation, it is my personal judgement
based upon
> my preferences of which you know very little about.>
>
It's very evident from the fact that you feel legitimated to make
this statement based purely on personal judgement is evidence of a sweeping
generalisation about dozens of nations, and hundreds of millions of people.
<I just love living where I am. The nastiness resides in your
> interpretation, not the sentence.>
>
Meaning always lies in the interpretation. Maybe you should
consider how people are likely to interpret your comments before making them
(indeed, we all should), and then consider whether they're fair comments or
not.
Yours, with the best of intentions,
Vincent
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